New Patient Registration

Please bring your signed medical card to the surgery, but do not worry if you have mislaid it as we will ask you to complete a simple form in its place. Please also bring two forms of identification with you, one photographic, ideally your passport or ID driving license and Birth Certificate or utility bill dated within the last three months or letter from your employer confirming that you have taken up residence in the area for at least six months.

You will be also asked to fill out a new patient health questionnaire.You can complete the form when you arrive or, If you prefer, you can download the form as a pdf document, print it out, complete it and bring it in with you.

You will also be asked to fill out the Family Doctors Registration Form, in order to request your medical records from your previous GP surgery. You can complete the form when you arrive or you can download the form below, print it out, complete it and bring it with you.

Change of Address

If you move out of our practice boundary we will unfortunately no longer be able to offer you medical advice and you will need to re-register at a more local GP practice. It is practice policy that patients who apply to register at the practice, but who live outside the practice boundary, cannot register, and also that those patients who move outside the Practice must register with a new practice more local to their new address.

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

Temporary Registration

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.